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Announcements for Friday, February 17, 2012

Announcements

  • Upcoming EGSA events

    Monday, February 20th, feel free to join us at 6:30 pm for a gymnastics meet against S.E. Missouri State. The event should be free for students, faculty, and staff. If you attend, you can use your ticket stub to also attend a meet on February 26 against Minnesota.

    Saturday, February 25th is the night of the last Cyclones Hockey Game. We have a large number of 2-for-1 coupons available for this game. Please send an email to me or ex-President Jesse Strzok (jstrzok@iastate.edu) for a coupon.

News

  • New display highlights department's Nobel awardees

    A new display in the Department of Economics pays tribute to three former department members, T. W. Schultz (1930-1943), George Stigler (1936-1938), and Leonid Hurwicz (1946-1950), who were awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences. The display, located on the second floor of Heady Hall, includes images, biographical information, and selected personal quotes from each awardee.

  • Elizabeth Hoyt and Geoffrey Shepherd honored

    Portraits of former faculty members Elizabeth Hoyt (1925-1975) and Geoffrey Shepherd (1927-1969) have been added to Department of Economics Hall of Honor. 

    Hoyt is best known for her contributions to the development of the Consumer Price Index, and the sizable donation she made to Iowa State University upon her death. Shepherd was a prolific writer and top contributor to the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (formerly the Journal of Farm Economics), and he played a key role in reshaping the department after the oleo-butter controversy and the departure of Department Chair T. W. Schultz in 1943. Biographical information about each of these individuals accompanies their portraits.

    The Department of Economics Hall of Honor is located on the third floor of Heady Hall.

  • William G. Murray Memorial Lecture features Fabrizio Perri, University of Minnesota

    Fabrizio Perri, University of Minnesota, is the special guest for the Monday, February 20, William G. Murray Memorial Lecture. His presentation entitled "International Recessions," will start at 4:10 PM in 368A Heady Hall. 


    Perri (www.fperri.net) is an associate professor of economics at the University of Minnesota and a consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Prior to his current position, he was Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. He graduated from Universitá Bocconi in Milan, Italy, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also an affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He is an associate editor at the American economic Review, the Journal of the European Economic Association , Quantitative Economics and the Review of Economic Dynamics.


    Perri's research is in macroeconomics and international macroeconomics, and he is interested in understanding risk sharing possibilities among individuals and countries.


    William G. Murray (1903-1991) was an agricultural economist, founder of Living History Farms, and an Iowa gubernatorial candidate. Murray received a BA from Coe College in 1924, and MA from Harvard University in 1925, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1932. He came to Iowa State University in 1927, with teaching and research interests in farm land valuation and finance. Murray served as head of the Department of Economics and Sociology at ISU from 1943 to 1955. In 1935-1936, he was chief economist with the Farm Credit Administration, and in 1948 he served as president of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association. He played a prominent role in the creation and early history of Living History Farms in Urbandale, Iowa, and in 1967, he helped organize the LHF Foundation. He served as research director of LHF from 1967-1974, and as its president from 1974-1981. Murray was also involved in Iowa politics, and was Iowa's Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1958 and 1966.

Funding Opportunities

  • Iowa Pork Foundation Fellowship

    Thanks to the generosity of the Iowa Pork Foundation, the ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is pleased to announce a graduate fellowship in the amount of $2500. This fellowship is designed to provide support to a student studying at the MS or PhD level in the ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who is conducting thesis or dissertation research related to the pork industry.

    Applicants must be:

    1. majoring in the areas of Animal Science, Agricultural Economics, Food Science, Microbiology, Agricultural Engineering or other related disciplines that contribute to the pork industry,
    2. US citizens,
    3. able to demonstrate financial need.

    Completed applications will include:

    1. a cover letter stating: the research topic being pursued; the planned use of the funds (to attend a professional meeting, assist with publication costs, etc.); an indication of what support the student is already receiving
    2. a copy of the applicant’s vita
    3. an endorsement by the applicant’s major professor.

    Completed applications are due by May 31, 2012, and should be emailed to: David Acker, Associate Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Iowa State University, dacker@iastate.edu

    The winner will be selected and notified during July. The cash award will be made during the Fall semester by the Iowa Pork Foundation. Please note that the fellowship awardee must be present at the Iowa Pork Congress Auction & Scholarship reception in late January 2013, to be held in Des Moines. After receiving the fellowship the awardee is required to submit to the Iowa Pork Foundation a report to include information on the awardee's future career plans and plans for utilizing the Iowa Pork Foundation fellowship.